Formed in 1948, after WWII by the Allied forces, the United Nations formed as a more viable replacement to the League of Nations formed in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference after WWI. The League of Nations was the brainchild of then US President, Woodrow Wilson, who sought to forge "a government of governments" and to ultimately make war illegal forever, as in the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928. Unfortunately, the Great Powers one by one violated the Kellogg-Briand Pact by becoming involved in WWII, optimistically daubed, "the war to end all wars." The League of Nations' significance became more clearly impotence as millions of people from all over the world were killed in Europe and Asia. The United Nations would rise from its ashes at the end of WWII as a better structured, slightly more realistic organization to "save future generations from the scourge of war" as stated in the preamble of its charter.